Complete credited cast: | |||
Burt Lancaster | ... | Joe Bass | |
Shelley Winters | ... | Kate | |
Telly Savalas | ... | Jim Howie | |
Ossie Davis | ... | Joseph Lee | |
Dabney Coleman | ... | Jed | |
Paul Picerni | ... | Frank | |
Dan Vadis | ... | Yuma | |
Armando Silvestre | ... | Two Crows | |
Nick Cravat | ... | Yancy | |
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Tony Epper | ... | Scalphunter |
Chuck Roberson | ... | Scalphunter | |
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John Epper | ... | Scalphunter |
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Jack Williams | ... | Scalphunter |
Trapper Joe is on his way to the town with all of his gain of hides of the last winter. However a group of Indians stops him and takes all of his hides, leaving him the escaped slave Joseph instead. But Joe has no use for Joseph and is determined to get his property back and follows them. Before he can do anything, the Indians are raided themselves by a group of scalphunters under the greedy Howie. Not only the hides, but also Joseph falls into their hands. Now Joe follows them alone and tries to trick the numerical superior group out of his hides. Written by Tom Zoerner <Tom.Zoerner@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
The acting is brilliant, the picture is fast, thrilling and very comical. But this western, one of the best in the sixties, is not only fun stuff. "The Scalphunters" is a very morally movie, taking a stand against racism and white men's arrogance. Also we have a well constructed and sophisticated story about the fact that circumstances of dominance can change very quickly. So I guess Sydney Pollack and writer William Norton have read the plays of Bertolt Brecht very accurately and have understood the political message of it. See it and you will like it.
I gave ******** out of 10 stars.